EFCC bans officials from raiding people’s homes at night

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaEFCC bans officials from raiding people’s homes at night

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)November 2, 2023

…reviews arrest and bail procedures. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has banned its officers from embarking on night raids to effect an arrest. The order came after the agency came under fire for raiding students’ hostels on Tuesday night and arresting 69 male students whom they labelled “Yahoo boys”, otherwise known as internet fraudsters. The students were arrested at Oduduwa Estate in Ile-Ife, the town housing the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, in Osun...

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President Tinubu vows to sack nonperforming ministers

NewsNigeriaPoliticsPresident Tinubu vows to sack nonperforming ministers

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)November 2, 2023

…ministers to sign performance pact President Bola Tinubu has said that he would not hesitate to fire any member of his cabinet over incompetence. “We can’t complain and give excuses,” Tinubu said at a retreat for ministers, presidential aides and other top government officials in Abuja, on Wednesday. The President reminded the ministers of their responsibility to serve the people who entrusted their mandate to him. “We have to give hope to the near hopeless,...

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Third Mainland Bridge Lagos To Be Close For Five Weeks

NewsNigeriaThird Mainland Bridge Lagos To Be Close For Five Weeks

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)November 1, 2023

The Federal Government on Wednesday said that it had completed plans to close a section of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos for five weeks of comprehensive repairs. A statement by the Federal Controller of Works in Lagos State, Mrs Olukorede Kesha, said that the repairs would start from Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. The statement said: “The Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Works wishes to inform the motoring public that it has perfected...

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Brain Drain: Over 7,000 Pharmacists Left Nigeria – PSN

HealthNewsNigeriaBrain Drain: Over 7,000 Pharmacists Left Nigeria – PSN

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)November 1, 2023

Prof. Cyril Usifoh, President of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has says more than 7,000 pharmacists emigrated from Nigeria in search of better practice environment abroad in the last two years. Usifoh told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said on Tuesday in Gombe that the issue of brain drain which remained one of the major challenges in the health sector needed serious attention in the interest of the well-being of Nigerians. Usifoh said government...

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Boko Haram Terrorists Kill Over 20 Mourners In Yobe

NewsNigeriaPoliticsBoko Haram Terrorists Kill Over 20 Mourners In Yobe

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)November 1, 2023

At least 20 villagers have been killed when a motorcycle was struck by an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Suspected Boko Haram terrorists on Tuesday evening killed no fewer than 20 villages in a bomb explosion planted by the terrorists in Goni Mittiri village under Gumsa town in Gaidam local government area of Yobe State. It was learned that mourners in the village, located some 20 kilometers away from Gaidam town, had gone to...

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Understanding the Ongoing Strike Action by Anambra Parliamentary Staff

ColumnsNigeriaOpinionPoliticsUnderstanding the Ongoing Strike Action by Anambra Parliamentary Staff

Ebuka Onyekwelu (Staff Writer)November 1, 2023

“In 2021, Governor Obiano signed the Judiciary financial autonomy bill into law, yet the House cannot recruit its own staff” —Ebuka Onyekwelu The Anambra State House of Assembly Complex has remained closed, following strike action by parliamentary staff, under the aegis of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria – PASAN, over the non-implementation of the Assembly autonomy, by the state government. It is worthy of note that section 121 of the 1999 constitution of the...

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First Lady hails Supreme Court’s judgment as the “Lord’s doing”

NewsNigeriaPoliticsFirst Lady hails Supreme Court’s judgment as the “Lord’s doing”

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)November 1, 2023

The First Lady of Nigeria, Oluremi Tinubu has welcomed the Supreme Court’s verdict on the election of President Bola Tinubu, her husband, saying it is the “Lord’s doing.” Pilot Need reports that the Supreme Court, last Thursday, aligned with the presidential election petition tribunal and affirmed Tinubu as the winner of the presidential election in February At a Tuesday political rally in Imo State, the First Lady told a mammoth crowd of the ruling All...

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EFCC arrests 69 internet fraudsters in OAU

NewsNigeriaEFCC arrests 69 internet fraudsters in OAU

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)November 1, 2023

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested several students of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, in southwestern Osun State suspected to be Yahoo boys, the Nigerian-speak for Internet fraudsters. The students numbering up to 69 were arrested on Wednesday during a raid at their off-campus hostels in Oduduwa Estate, Ile-Ife. “Credible intelligence linked Oduduwa Estate with activities of suspected internet fraudsters,” the anti-graft agency said in a post on X. EFCC Arrests 69 Suspected...

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Lionel Messi wins the 2023 men’s Ballon d’Or

NewsSoccerLionel Messi wins the 2023 men’s Ballon d’Or

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)October 31, 2023

Lionel Messi won the prestigious Ballon d’Or for the men’s category on Monday, a reward for his remarkable feat during last year’s World Cup. This is the eighth time the Argentine forward has won the trophy. He won it in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021, and now 2023. Messi, 36, was pitted against heavyweights like Manchester City’s Erling Haaland, his former PSG teammate Kylian Mbappe and Nigerian-born Napoli star Victor Osimhen, among others....

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APC berates Atiku for holding press conference over S’Court’s verdict

NewsNigeriaPoliticsAPC berates Atiku for holding press conference over S’Court’s verdict

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)October 31, 2023

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has described Atiku Abubakar’s speech during a press conference his party, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, hosted on Monday as “long, windy, incoherent and preposterous.” Atiku, at the press briefing, said the presidential election tribunal and the Supreme Court dismissed his “incontrovertible evidence that Bola A. Tinubu was not qualified to contest the presidential election because he forged the qualifying academic certificate, which he submitted to INEC” and the “irrefutable...

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